The Cast
Name: Curtis Akkenai (dragon_of_red)
Age: 27
Backround: An Australian Combat Medic. Was lent to the French in good faith to send more soldiers down to help, since he could already speak french. He has spent 5 years in fighting, after he had finished his medical training, his friend convinced him to join the Army. He was picked in an elite group to go to France to help them out, as Good faith until they could train more soldiers to help them out.
He is stationed in Paris since that is where the least medics were. Si far he has not been in any serious conflicts, and hasn't had to shoot an enemy yet. Being a Medic he was not trained to be so proficient with a weapon, but he manages well enough in theory in the training room
Weapons: Walther PPK and an MP 40. Carries around first aid supplies with him at all times.
Name: Ruebens van der Luffe (Beach_Sided)
Age: 33
Background:
Reubens is a well educated and multi-lingual (Dutch, English, French, German and Afrikaans) Dutchman who fled Holland during the invasion and was rescued by the resistance. Prior to the war starting he was a recently graduated Science Professor, specialising in Life Sciences, and had no experience of real combat before the war started. He did, however, serve in the Dutch army for 2 years when he was 18 to do his compulsary national service.
He is a reluctant soldier, having been forced into joining the resistance through circumstance rather than choice, although his language skills and science knowledge have proved useful so far. He has the nickname "beach" because he has scruffy blonde hair and olive skin, making him look like he's got a permanent sun tan.
Weapon:Walther P38 & Karabiner 98k
Name: Lucas Leroy (CloggedDonkey)
Age: 20
Background: A born anarchist, Lucas lived a relatively easy life under the rule of the easy going French. He found himself a well paying job as a musician in a cafe, lived in a downtown flat in Paris, and generally enjoyed life while still rebelling against the government in his own way. Then the Germans showed up. He lost his job and was forced into labor as part of a road crew. Then he found out about the resistance and instantly joined. The rest, as they say, is history.
Weapon: StG 44 and a Walther P38.
Name: Laurence le'Pont (Shanaar)
Age: 46
Background: A old French army soldier, Laurence had thought in the first world war. Laurence saw action at the battle of Verdun and the Somme. I these battle's, Laurence served as a machine gunner during those battle's. After the invasion from the germans, he quickly sought out old army friends from his so he could join the resistance.
While he was in the army, Laurence learned a rudimentary form of German and English.
Weapon: Modèle 1935 pistol & MG 42
Name:Albert "Fucking loon" Jacka (boris the sprinkler)
Age: 23
Background: Albert Jacka was born on a dairy farm near Winchelsea, Victoria on 10 January 1920 the fourth of seven children to Nathaniel Jacka and his English-born wife Elizabeth His family moved to Wedderburn, Victoria when he was five years old, where he attended the local school before working with his father as a haulage contractor. When world war two broke out, Jacka signed up for the army. he fought in france, Belgium, and Holland. When the Germans advanced on Paris, jacka was left behind, mostly because he never showed up at roll call on the day his unit shipped out, instead drinking his own body weight in beer in a shitty parisian bar.
Weapon:Lebel Model 1886 rifle and a Walther P38, he has a knife in his boot.
Name: George Harris (ToxicPirahna)
Age: 26
Background: A Royal Airforce Pilot. On a routine escort mission, George's Hurricane was shot down when they raid was rumbled by enemy night fighters. Bailing out George managed to land and evade capture until he was picked up by Resitance fighters. He was being smuggled back through France to be shipped back to Blighty, when he got caught up in Paris.
Weapon:Walther PPK + MP. 40
Name: Dominique Salliere (SwedishDude)
Age: 21
Background: Adopted and raised by a rich french family in Nice, she early fell in love with the world of technology, wich made her move to Paris to study it when she was in lycée. A few years after she graduated, the war begun. She joined the revolution and provided calculations on how they should build protection, weapons, and vehicles for safest use.
Weapon: Walther P38 and the MAS-36.
Name: Benjamin Fournier (BloodyThoughts)
Age: 25
Background: Ben was born Leon Schlienger in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. He grew up Catholic, but later became a Unitarian Universalist. He was drafted into the Nazi army despite being a Frenchman like many other "Malgre-nous." As an Alsatian, he spoke the German dialect Alsatian as fluently as French. It is said that he soon deserted, joined a group of French Resistance fighters, and became a double agent working for the French. He led a party of Nazis into an ambush, was shot in the arm, but survived.
Weapon: StG 44 and a Walther PPK
Name: Jean Prudhomme (roleplayguy)
Age: 36
Backrgound: The middle child of seven children born to humble, Catholic parents, Jean strode to better his life in any way he could, eventually leading him and his siblings to a life of crime. His first love was burglary, and after several years of honing his craft he extended his influence and power through legitimate family buisness and a small but lucrative protection racket with his brother Gabriel. Several of Paris' small Cigar Shops and Cafes operate entirely under his control. Today, Jean remains dedicated to his work and his family,though he lives without the prominent financial status he hoped to achieve by this point in his life (and with a much larger gut than he expected).
[Speaks French and limited English]
Weapon: Walter PPK Pistol, a set of lockpicks.